.jpg) HMQS Paluma in 1889
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Paluma |
| Namesake | Aboriginal word for "thunder" |
| Builder | Sir W.G. Armstrong, Mitchell & Co, Newcastle-on-Tyne |
| Cost | £35,000 |
| Commissioned | 28 October 1884 |
| Fate | Transferred to the Queensland Maritime Defence Force in 1892 |
 Queensland | |
| Name | Paluma |
| Namesake | Aboriginal word for "thunder" |
| Acquired | 1892 |
| Fate | Transferred to Commonwealth Naval Forces in 1901 |
| Australia | |
| Name | Paluma |
| Namesake | Aboriginal word for "thunder" |
| Acquired | 1901 |
| Decommissioned | 1916 |
| Fate | Scrapped in 1950–51 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Armstrong type B1 flat-iron gunboat |
| Displacement | 360 tons |
| Length | 120 ft (37 m) |
| Beam | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Draught | 9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) |
| Installed power | 400 ihp (298 kW) |
| Propulsion | 2 shaft horizontal direct action compound steam engines |
| Speed | 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph) |
| Range | 700 to 800 mi (1,100 to 1,300 km) |
| Endurance | 75 tons of coal |
| Complement | 55 |
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HMQS Paluma was a flat-iron gunboat operated by the Queensland Maritime Defence Force and later the Royal Australian Navy (as HMAS Paluma). She entered service on 28 October 1884, was decommissioned in 1916 and then sold to the Victorian Ports and Harbours Department, who operated her under the name Rip until 1948 when she was retired. She was scrapped in 1950–51.